The Garden of Forking Paths response
This reading is very confusing and totally a torture to me not only because I’m bad at words but it’s a genre like detective story, a genre that need clue gathering and puzzle resolving, which I rarely read and I am not patient with. (I am the kind of people who read the first three chapters of the detective novel then directly jump to the last three. Middle part is always the last one. XD)
I read three times and finally figured out what this story talks about and the connection to the hypertext. The story is first point of view, which add mysterious smell to the storyline because of the background of the leading character—Tsun. Reader will not realize the protagonist is a spy if they see through a spy’s view. Besides, the infinite/endless book idea is very interesting. When the time element has been added to the three dimensional world, time slip will make every single alternative point has its own multiple choices and can be chose simultaneously, and thus the story goes to infinite endings. The structure is pretty much look like a tree: each single branch has its own several sub branches, and sub branches also will have their own sub-sub ones. Internet hypertext works in the same way because every message online can be searched and connect to others, the connection lines will go infinite.
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